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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

THEODORE J. DIEUZET, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEXV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALFTO WVALTER R. XVILLIAM, OF SAME PLACE.

LlNTlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,139, datedSeptember 17,1889.

Application filed August 6, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE J. DIEUZET, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bloomfield, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Linting-Machines;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others to skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

I 5 The object of this invention is to secure in a sheet of lint adeeper pile on the woven part of the fabric; to more perfectly andthoroughly disintegrate the fabric in producing said pile, so that insurgical operations the sheet may be more easily and quickly torn apart;to facilitate the operation of linting the fabric, and thus to reducethe cost of construction; to secure a smoother and easier movement, andthus prevent the noise here- 2 5 tofore produced. by linting-machineswhile in operation; to secure a more uniform linted surface, or toprevent skipping, and, generally, to secure a more effective andmechanically-perfect machine.

0 The invention consists in the improved linting-machine and in thearrangements and combinations of parts thereof, substantially as will behereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, embraced in two sheets, in whichlike letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of theseveral figures, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved machine.Fig. 2 is an inside view of a cam-wheel for actuating the bed. Fig. 3 isa section of the same, taken on line as of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectionon line 1 Fig. 7. Fig. 5 is a front view of the machine. Fig. 6 is asection on line .2 of Fig.

7. Fig. 7 is a detail view of a sliding plate adapted to support thebed, which co-operates with the linting-blade. Fig. 8 is a detail Viewof a support for the lint material as it passes toward the knife, andFigs. 9 and 10 5o glipstrate the motions of the linting blade and SerialNo. 282,065. (No model.)

In said drawings, a indicates a suitable frame upon which the operatingparts find a bearing, and b indicates the fast and loose pulleys, thefirst of which transmits the power from any suitable driving mechanismto the machine. I

0 indicates a driving-shaft on which the means employed for operatingboth the bed (1 and a linting-blade e are arranged. Thelint- 6oing-blade is given a peculiar motion obtained through the medium of aneccentric f, as indicated in Fig. 1, arranged on the drivingshaft, and avibrating carrier g, connected with said eccentric by a connecting-rodh. The carrier is supported at the ends by vibrating rods or arms g,pivoted on the frame a, as at 1'. When the eccentric is given its rotarymotion by means of the driving-shaft, the blade-carrier and blade aregiven a reciprocating movement in a curved path, as will be understood.The linting-blade is secured to the carrier by means of suitablesetscrews 6, or other suitable fasteners, which are preferably arrangedin vertical slots 6 in said blade, so that the latter may be moved underthe influence of the adjusting-screws s. The linting-blade is madeadjustable on its carrier, so as to be raised or lowered in relation tothe bed d. The adjustment is ef- 8o fected by means of adjusting-screws5, Figs.

1 and 5, arranged in bearings on the carrier and extending intoengagement with the linting-blade, so that by turning the said screw therelation of the blade to the bed or to the cloth moving thereover ischanged, as will be understood.

The upper surface of the bed d, or where it co-operates with thelinting-blade, is convex or made concentric or approximately concentricwith the path of said linting-blade. Said bed is given a motion to andfrom said linting-blade, moving toward said blade when said blade isabout to make its operative stroke and from said blade at the end ofsaid stroke. This movement is produced by means of a cam or cams 70,such as are shown more clearly in Fig. 2. This said cam is connectedwith the bed (1, or with a sliding plate Z, supporting the same, bymeans of a rod m, which is intermittingly given a vertical movement bymeans of said cam,

which movement is transmitted to the sliding plates and from thence tothe bed. Each red "at at its upper end is provided with a pin on, whichengages the groove in the face of the cam 70, by which the desiredintermitting movement is effected. From said pin or point of engagementwith the cam the said rod extends downwardly at the outer sides of theframe a, being suitably held to said frame by, in, or on bearings m andis connected to the sliding plate 1 011 the inner side of said frame bya pin or bolt 1), which extends through a slot or openingin said frame.The sliding plates, which provide the bearings for the bed, are or maybe held onto the frame a by means of straps nor other suitable means,and the said frame is slotted, as at 0, Fig. 1, to allow a passage forthe belts or pins p for connecting the rodsm with the sliding plates.The bed may be held in fixed relation to the sliding plates Z by meansof set-screws q or other well-known suitable means.

The fabric may be fed to the linting-blade by rollers actuated bygearing which receives its motions from the driving-shaft in anywell-known manner.

The linting-bed is preferably of iron, lined on its curved side firstwith felt (Z' and over that with leather (P.

The operation of the improvements having been already described inconnection with the description of the parts, further description isdeemed unnecessary.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is" 1. In alint-ing-machine, the coi'nbination, with a linting-blade c, mounted ona reciprocating pivoted carrier and movable in a curved path, of a bedhaving a convex surface concentric with said path and means,substantially as described, for reciprocating the said pivoted carrier,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a linting-machine, the combination, with a linting-blade e,mounted on a pivoted carrier and movable reciprocally in a curved path,of a reciprocating bed having a curved linting'surface to eo-operatewith said lintingblade and means, substantially as described, forproducing the reciprocating movements of said bed and carrier,substantially as set forth.

In a linting-machine, the combination, with a convex lintin g-bed, ofadrivin g-shaft, an eccentric f arranged thereon, vibrating armscarrying the carrier 9 and the linting-blade, and rod 71, connecting theeccentric with said carrier, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

I. In combination, a frame a, blade (2, carrier g, eccentric f, rod 71,arm 9', convex bed (Z, plate Z, rod 111, and cam 70, all arranged andadapted to operate substantially as and for In testimony that I claimthe foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of July, 1888.

T. .T. DIEUZET.

\Vitnesses:

(J-mums II. PELL, (1. 1L BALDWIN.

